Guest glossywhite Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 This review cites "bad camera" on the San Diego (ironic, seeing as the maximum resolution of the YouTube review is 480p). Is this a reliable, fair judgement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rem1x Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 The camera is terrible, aside from speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest glossywhite Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 The camera is terrible, aside from speed. "Terrible" in relation to others, or just terrible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rem1x Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 "Terrible" in relation to others, or just terrible? Just terrible. I'm comparing this to the HD2 and the Atrix. The HD2 was released in 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Coming from blade,skate,g300, I find the camera very good, a little grainy in low light but the pics are not bad at all, the 10 photo burst is a good feature too. Again with video, low light it is grainy, but very good in normal daylight and reasonably lit rooms indoors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest glossywhite Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) Just terrible. I'm comparing this to the HD2 and the Atrix. The HD2 was released in 2009. I've seen the samples, and the word "terrible" is rather over-dramatic. It's a phone, not a Nikon D80 - it's not built in the same class as, quote "proper" cameras. Maybe the colours are slightly under-saturated... but it is a phone, after all, and I cannot help but feel that people who swap and change camera phones more frequently than socks, become biased and spoilt (I don't mean you personally, I mean overall). Could you imagine a 1080p recording, auto-focus camera on a PHONE, five years ago? Opinion on photographic quality is a personal thing... bah, I now feel a fool for having asked! :P He he. [edit] @jikobutsu Which photographer would attempt low light photos without long exposure and a wide aperture, anyway? I think people are far too fussy - they expect DSLR quality from a *phone* camera - it is a matter of physics - the aperture could NEVER be as wide as on a "proper" DSLR, so the whole point appears a moot one, to me. Hey, listen to me babbling... I'm getting ensnared in the whole "photo snob" melarkey... I feel like I'm on DP Review forums (perish such a thought - NEVER AGAIN!). Edited June 30, 2012 by glossywhite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 To be honest, if I intend to be taking photos, I will take my digital camera which cost half the price of an OSD but will easily give better shots than even the most advanced phone ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest glossywhite Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 To be honest, if I intend to be taking photos, I will take my digital camera which cost half the price of an OSD but will easily give better shots than even the most advanced phone ;) ExactaMondo! hah! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rem1x Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Lacks the detail of the 5MP camera on the Atrix, which lacked the detail of the 5MP of the HD2. Very little clarity at 100%, noisy, dark and blurry. The Atrix was just about fine for a daily photo taker, and the HD2 was fantastic. The OSF just lacks that clarity that the smaller sensors got. That burst+the bracketing is awesome though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Bracketing what is that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest glossywhite Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Bracketing what is that ? It takes multiple shots of the same subject, so you can pick the best one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 So that is the burst mode then ? Just confused me as rem1x said burst & bracketing as if two things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rem1x Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Bracketing is when each shot uses a different focus or exposure. You can use the exposure setting to create HDR images, like so (horrid image, but taken with OSD), this was using 5 images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eirlysbill1 Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) bracketing: the old school definition = 3 shots in a row, one at the auto light meter reading, and then one a 1/2 step up and one a 1/2 step down (in aperture/f-stop). And the shutter speed stayed the same. This basically was done because auto light meters are never 100% and also to allow for creativity. Before the days of modern cameras, photographers did this manually and then they had to keep a written record of what they did. It's so easy now if you have camera with that function on it, once you set it up, its just one push of the shutter. PS: bracketing in modern cameras, is like a burst, because you just push the shutter once and it does it for you. But bracketing alters the exposure on each shot. Where with a burst every exposure is the same. The idea of a burst is to get the best photo out of the lot, in like a group shot, or high speed action. Edited July 2, 2012 by eirlysbill1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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